How can I use WMI from PHP - php

Question

First of all I am sorry for the newbi question ! :D
I want to build a website to do excactly what psands in the following topic did:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsserver2008r2virtualization/thread/697eafc2-7778-488b-8774-7554f84de642
he built a website to manage virtual machiens such as creat/start/stop.... VMs using the WMI API for Hyper-v with asp.net
now he did it with ASP.NET , my question is can I do it with PHP ?
in another words does the API support PHP ?
Thanks ..

Answer 1

class wmiConnect
{
// WMI connection to specified host
protected $connection;
/**
* Create a new wmi instance.
*
* #param string $host Host name or IP address to connect to
* #param string $username Local host user with rights to query WMI; normally a local admin
* #param string $password Password of local user account
* #return void New wmi object
*/
public function __construct($host = null, $username = null, $password = null) {
$wmiLocator = new \COM('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator');
try {
$this->connection = $wmiLocator->ConnectServer($host, 'root\\CIMV2', $username, $password);
$this->connection->Security_->impersonationLevel = 3;
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// -2147352567 means that we're unable to connect to the local host with a username and password.
// Attempt connection again passing null values for username and password.
if ($e->getCode() == '-2147352567') {
$this->connection = $wmiLocator->ConnectServer($host, 'root\CIMV2', null, null);
$this->connection->Security_->impersonationLevel = 3;
}
}
}
/**
* Get all properties of a WMI class.
*
* #param string $win32_class Win32 class to retrieve data from
* #return object WMI collection object
*/
public function getInfo($win32_class) {
$WMIcollection = $this->connection->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM ' . $win32_class);
foreach ($WMIcollection as $WMIobj) {
return $WMIobj;
}
}
}
Here is a list of classes for WMI:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394132(v=vs.85).aspx
Hyper-v for 2012 on has a new namespace - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh850078(v=vs.85).aspx